I was sitting in front of the Christmas tree a couple of weeks ago, thinking about MBAs and job hunting. I have a soft spot for folks in full-time graduate programs, because it’s hard to spend two years with your brain split down the middle. When you go back to school to improve your career-type marketability, you have to study hard in order to get good grades and learn everything you can. You’re expected to be focused on your studies. At the same time, you’ve got to keep one eye on the horizon — on your post-graduation job search, that is – which can be unnerving, since the full-time program doesn’t allow you to do lots of things that you’d do if you were actively job-hunting right now. Read more…

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